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Exhibits

Mapping the Pacific Coast: Coronado to Lewis and Clark
Arthur Ross Gallery Through January 9, 2006

Features early maps and prints, dating from 1544 to 1801, that illustrate the discovers that led up to commission of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Above, Maris Pacific by Abraham Ortelius, 1589.

Body Maps
Annenberg School for Communication Through January 15, 2006

Two works from the Body Maps exhibit, a collection of life-size canvases and watercolors by South African AIDS patients, depicting their physical and emotional pain and their visions of hope for the future. Untitled pieces by Babalwa Cekiso,
2003 (left) and Ncedeka, 2003 (right).
Images courtesy David Krut Projects,
New York, NY,

The Marshall Plan: The Vision of a Family of Nations
International HouseThrough February 3, 2006

Images from The Marshall Plan, depicting the story of the recovery program that transformed post WW II ravaged Europe to a continent of peaceful, prosperous nations.

Plants For All Reasons
Morris Arboretum Through February 19, 2006

African Violet (left) by Betty McLaughlin and Tree Peonies (right) by Phoebe Shih are on display at the Morris Arboretum in the exhibit Plants for All Reasons. Featured are landscape paintings by students from the studio class of Phoebe Shih.

Ramp Project: Ingrid Calame
ICAThrough March 26, 2006

The Ottoman and Seljuk courts were noted for producing magnificent carpets and luxurious textiles; refined examples influenced by Royal patronage will be displayed alongside more stylized versions of village and nomadic carpets from the 17th to the 19th centuries in this second “Masterpieces” exhibition. Exploring the historic legacy of tribes who established weaving traditions in Anatolia, the selection provides evidence of distinctive styles developed in certain regions being adopted into the design vocabulary of village weavers in different areas and relationships between motifs in architecture and other Islamic art as they appear especially in prayer rugs.

Famous National Geographic magazine cover portrait of a young Afghan war refugee (photo by Steve McCurry, 1985). In 2002, National Geographic searched for and relocated the girl, Sharbat Gulu, now a woman in her 30s with three children, in the remote Pushtun region of Afghanistan. Image courtesy of National Geographic.

Image of a rancher's daughter in Elko, Nevada, made by the historic tintype process. Photo by Robb Kendrick, 2003. Courtesy of National Geographic.

Goldfinches ride on the head of a woman in Kabul, Afghanistan. Photo by Thomas J. Abercrombie, 1968. Courtesy of National Geographic.

Educating the Youth of Pennsylvania:
Worlds of Learning in the Age of Franklin
Rosenwald Gallery, Van Pelt-Dietrich LibraryThrough May 31, 2006

Benjamin Franklin, Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania Philadelphia; Franklin and Hall, 1749; Image courtesy of Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania